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While the more you drive would statistically make you more likely to get in an accident, that still doesn't affect passenger safety. You can argue that the more you drive, the safer you drive, as well. The more experience you have driving, the more inbuilt habit/reaction you have as body memory.

The more you ride would be what affected passenger safety.

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"You can argue that the more you drive, the safer you drive, as well. THe more experience you have driving, the more inbuilt habit/reaction you have as body memory"

I used to think something similar, but the truth is that the problem with professional driving isn't one of experience, but things like driver fatigue [1]. All things being equal in driving skill, the "normal" driver generally drives safer than the professional.

[1]https://www.transportation.gov/fastlane/why-we-care-about-tr...

In that document, it states over and over that the vast majority does not have a problem and is responsible.

Laws will not weed out irresponsible people.

The key points here arent that there is a potential for danger. The point is that the extra laws (which just so happen to come with a price and generate revenue for the state) don't prevent those problems.

They could pass a law requiring that drivers drive less than 40 hours a week. Does that really fix anything? Is there any way to determine that the driver who drove 10 hours this week didnt do so after staying awake for 3 days straight?

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